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Industry
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-059
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Guidance on Adaptation of Commonwealth Fisheries management to climate change

This project is comprised of four key components: (i) FRDC Final Report (Appendices 3-5 are provided as standalone documents); (ii) Adaptation Handbook (designed to help fisheries managers, operators – and anyone else helping to support fisheries – step through a risk assessment and...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-061
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Evaluation of alternative strategies for management of Commonwealth fisheries in southeastern Australia

In early 2004, when this project commenced, the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) was in a critical situation with respect to its ecological and economic performance, and in the external management environment that it faced. It was clear that, as the prime management tool, the...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
Adoption
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-026
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

e-fish - An Integrated Data Capture and Sharing Project

The e-fish project provides an in-depth analysis of the challenges currently experienced by fisheries agencies in data integration and sharing. The project, led by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) in consultation with Australia’s State and NT fisheries jurisdictions,...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
SPECIES
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-203
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

SESSF Monitoring and Assessment – Strategic Review

The Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) is a multi-species, multi-gear, multijurisdictional Commonwealth fishery. It is a fishery of substantial economic and social importance to Australia, as a key provider of high quality fish products to Australian markets. More than 600...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)

Evaluating the use of onboard cameras in the Shark Gillnet Fishery in South Australia

Project number: 2010-049
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $288,462.00
Principal Investigator: Josh Davis
Organisation: Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
Project start/end date: 23 Sep 2010 - 31 Oct 2011
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Australian Sea Lions (ASL) have been known to interact with the gillnet sector of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) for some time but the nature and extent of these interactions have been poorly understood. On 30 June 2010 AFMA implemented the Australian Sea Lion Management Strategy. A component of this strategy requires that observer coverage in the fishery be increased from approx 2.6% to at least 11% in the South Australian gillnet sector of the SESSF. This increased level of monitoring is designed to detect interactions with Australian sea lions and provide an indication of accuracy of predicted level of interactions suggested in the report by Goldsworthy et al (2010). Given the rare nature of the interactions, significant increases in human observation at or above this level are unlikely to be economically sustainable in the longer term and digital monitoring including cameras have been proposed as a viable alternative. Onboard camera monitoring has the potential to improve fishery management outcomes cost effectively.
AFMA is currently undertaking e-monitoring trial featuring onboard cameras in the Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery and the Northern Prawn Fishery to assess the capacity of onboard cameras to collect data cost effectively. Early indications from these trials are positive. This project differs from the ETBF as it focuses on an investigation of the equipment to collect a significant proportion of the data currently collected as part of the Independent Scientific Monitoring Program (ISMP) including protected species. In addition the capacity of onboard cameras to capture interactions between fishing operations and Australian sea lions in the Shark gillnet fishery is unknown. The proposed project will be designed to enable a detailed cost benefit analysis of onboard camera monitoring in gillnet and fish trawl fisheries to test this hypothesis.

Objectives

1. Assess the capacity of electronic monitoring to provide in-season data on interactions with Australian sea lions in shark gillnet fisheries.
2. Improve the level of certainty on the impact of fishing operations Australian sea lions that currently surrounds the Goldsworthy findings.
3. Investigate the use of electronic monitoring for the further collection of data currently collected by observers with a focus on opportunities to improve data integrity and data quality in the ISMP data set.
4. Assess the cost and benefits of utilising electronic monitoring in the shark gillnet fisheries

Final report

ISBN: 978-1-877044-43-4
Author: Josh Davis
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